It's just a bit weird to expect apologies from someone in a room with 2 lawyers especially if that person has been demonised and wrongfully accused of all kinds of things. It really backfired and i think it's purely a product of the vile rivalry that always surrounds Patrick Lefevre and his wolfpack.
I fear they know his carreer is over though because this sure feels like a desperate move.
Wow, that really is victim blaming and turning the truth.
Yes, I'm sure, Groenewegen has his own share of hurt here, but nonetheless it wasn't just an unfortunate event. He is responsible for Jakobsen's pain and trauma (as much as for his own). He accepted that something like that could happen, like a drunk driver who doesn't mean to kill someone, but when he does, he's responsible.
Forget the lawyers. If I was responsible for something like that I wouldn't be able to sleep until I at least did
everything I could to own up to this. I would call, go to the house on my own, try to get a conversation, tell the guy how incredibly sorry I am, not just that it happened, but that I am responsible for that, that I made the biggest mistake. I wouldn't just tell him once.
If I was able to race again myself, which, admittedly, I probably wouldn't, I wouldn't go to talk-shows and so on. I would race and otherwise be as quiet as possible.
(It's not about the face. The face looks much much better than I would have expected. But losing all your teeth, having problems to eat, to speak, operations again and again and again... This is so hurtful.)
If my apology has legal consequences in that I am accepting guilt with it and my life will be deeply affected by my actions, than that is the way it is.